From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 170
Summary:
Thanks WED for some earthworm observations.
Discusses investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 171
Summary:
Discusses earthworm activity
and animal grazing on slopes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 172
Summary:
Writes of WED’s certificate for the Geological Society
and discusses various instances of earthworm activity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 173
Summary:
Discusses investments,
earthworms,
and an article by Romanes [see 13029].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 177
Summary:
Discusses some business matters
and E. A. Darwin’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 174
Summary:
Discusses earthworms and their ability to perceive narrowest points of leaves to draw them into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 175
Summary:
Discusses investments.
The action of worms when drawing leaves into their burrows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
8 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 176
Summary:
Thanks WED for sending leaves and making observations on how earthworms drag them into their burrows.
Doubts justice of fierce review against J. Geikie’s book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)] in Nature [by W. B. Dawkins, 23 (1881): 309–10], but if reindeer and hippopotamus have really been found in close contact in same bed – "it tells horribly against interglacial periods".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:
Discusses his investments.
P.S. on earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 181
Summary:
Reports on a luncheon of scientific savants at which the Crown Prince of Germany [and Prince of Wales?] were present.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 182
Summary:
Discusses financial affairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 75)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 85)
Summary:
Passes on legal advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 86)
Summary:
He is buying a portable fire engine, and suggests one is purchased for Down. Wishes to join the Geological Society of London. Is eager to hear Leslie Stephen’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 100)
Summary:
Thanks CD for writing for papers to enter Geological Society. Will return Leslie Stephen’s letter. Has had a severe frost. Emma’s puppy died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 87)
Summary:
Discusses his election to the Geological Society, worm researches, GHD’s travels, investments,G J Romanes on Samuel Butler, the snow, politics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 88)
Summary:
Worm observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 89)
Summary:
Discusses possible investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 112/1
Summary:
Reports his observations on numbers of Rhododendron leaves found buried [by earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 90)
Summary:
Brokers have purchased Leeds Corporation Stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project